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Short Name: Verolga Nix
Full Name: Nix, Verolga
Birth Year: 1933
Death Year: 2014

Verolga Nix (Apr. 6, 1933-Dec. 9, 2014) Born in Cleveland, Verolga moved with her family at an early age to Philadelphia. She studied for two years at New England Conservatory of Music and then earned a music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1955. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Bennett College in 2000. After retiring from twenty years as a full-time music teacher in Philadelphia public schools she served as minister of music at several churches in Philadelphia, trained and conducted many choirs and served as a seminar leader nationwide. She was a member of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), National Association of Negro Musicians and the Hymn Society in U.S. and Canada. In 1980 the United Methodist Church asked her to co-edit with J. Jefferson Cleveland the supplemental hymnal Songs of Zion. She published nearly 200 original songs an arrangements.

(further details in The Philadelphia Tribune, Dec.19, 2014 obituary).

Mary Louise VanDyke


Tunes by Verolga Nix (51)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[Ah tol' Jesus it would be all right]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)111345 34354 31231
AMEN (Spiritual)Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)116513 21354 35432
[Eighfold Amen] (Nix)Verolga Nix, 1933- (Composer)272172 33273 55227
BLESSED QUIETNESS (Marshall)Verolga Nix (Arranger)734513 21617 65
[You'll hear the trumpet sound] (Spiritual)Verolga Nix (Harmonizer (refrain))233231 15534 22653
ELIZABETH (Thompson)Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)132143 32151 12235
FIX ME, JESUSVerolga Nix (b. 1933) (Arranger)213215 16513 21116
GIVE ME JESUS (Spiritual)Verolga Nix (Harmonizer)365535 61332 1355
[Glory, glory, hallelujah] (Spiritual)Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)156113 13132 11616
[He made the sun to shine by day]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)154531 55125 54531
[I trust in God wherever I may be]Verolga Nix-Allen, b. 1933 (Arranger)656535 17212 34576
[Hebrew children in de fiery furnace]Verolga Nix (b. 1933) (Arranger)211111 21321 11133
WHOLE WORLD (Spiritual)Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)155353 13555 55442
SHINE ON MEVerolga Nix, b. 1933 (Arranger)233116 51111 11123
[I know my robe's goin' to fit me well]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)156565 21211 22355
I SHALL NOT BE MOVEDVerolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)133434 22222 23221
[I stood on the river of Jordan]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)251323 35611 32111
BE READYVerolga Nix (Arranger)211135 56661 53212
LEAVE IT THEREVerolga Nix (b. 1933) (Arranger)212333 33212 11611
[I'm so glad that trouble don't last always]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)111111 65611 33333
[In the valley]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)132331 35355 56661
[It was inch by inch that I sought the Lord]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)132332 33233 32122
[I've never been to Heaven, but I've been tol']Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)113131 11121 23131
PILOT (Gould)Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)132172 16543 321
SOMEBODY'S KNOCKIN'Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)111321 61155 16535
[Life is like a mountain railroad] (Tillman)Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)133312 32111 12165
LIFT EVERY VOICEVerolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)134566 66716 54456
[Lord, I'm bearin' heavy burdens]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)157113 31555 57121
MARTYRDOM (Wilson)Verolga Nix (Arranger)451651 23213 53213
[My Savior spoke these words so sweet]Verolga Nix (b. 1933) (Harmonizer)231332 31133 21713
NEAR THE CROSS (Doane)Verolga Nix-Allen, b. 1933 (Harmonizer)534321 66511 33234
HAVE MERCY ON MEVerolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)153135 35616 52756
O FREEDOMVerolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)156112 13135 61132
OLIVET (Mason)Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)113554 32244 32326
[Our Father who art in heaven] (West Indian)Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)117511 17511 11223
OVER MY HEADVerolga Nix (Arranger)211131 13322 11112
[Peace, peace be unto you]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)256754 56611 77713
[Po' sinner, do you love Jesus?]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)166533 33111 66343
SOJOURNERVerolga Nix, b. 1933 (Arranger)1113551 32135 77515
BALM IN GILEAD (Spiritual)Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)132321 51231 33432
[Sometimes I feel like a moanin' dove]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)113131 23216 12121
STAND BY ME (Tindley)Verolga Nix, b. 1933 (Arranger)412333 21567 11355
[Surely been 'buked and surely been scorned]Verolga Nix, b. 1933 (Arranger)366161 22161 111
[Thank you, Lord, Thank you, Lord] (Spiritual)Verolga Nix (Harmonizer)432143 26713 43211
[The foxes, they have holes in the ground]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)155333 33333 54444
[The time for praying won't be long]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)151321 67121 35353
[This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger)155553 15555 31111
WERE YOU THEREVerolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer)151333 21321 13555
[When I get up in Heaven]Verolga Nix, 1933- (Composer)153556 11332 12213
WOKE UP THIS MORNINGVerolga Nix (Arranger)333561 16161 56113
[Yes, Yes]Verolga Nix (Arranger)155566 66653 23555
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